That is a powerful line, that. “I am not proud to be a Pakistani” sends a very strong message indeed. If I say this, you are thinking, “OK so this guy is sick of one or the other aspect of the society that we all feel bad about. And has taken his feelings perhaps a [...]
A German publisher (Droste Publishers) had canceled the printing of novel about an honor killing because it contained passages insulting Islam.
Droste publishers is being criticized for not upholding the ‘freedom of speech’ doctrine and succumbing to fears of attacks by the Islamist radicals. The sometimes violent retaliation to the offensive drawings of our Prophet Muhammad [...]
I just finished reading a remarkable little book on Languages.
My interest in language acquisition began only when I chanced upon a reading of Mohammad Asad’s tafseer of the Quran. The remarkable thing about M Asad’s approach towards the Quran is that his work, according to his own admission, is the first in its category. The [...]
I don’t know if I spelt the word ‘mediocricity’ correctly, and I don’t care.
I know one thing for sure, that being mediocre is just plain stupid. I make it sound like as if people do this by choice, this being ‘just average’. I do this because really, that is what people do; they choose to [...]
This is what separates the good from the best, but only under rare circumstances. Usually, relevancy separates the good from the useless.
As my wife constantly keeps reminding me, ‘When good does nothing, it is evil enough‘ – that is relevancy explained in another way.
Relevancy – how significant is your actions as compared to the situation [...]
By God’s Grace, I have been able to get along with presentations quite successfully. Since I first started giving them at college (PICS, now UCP), I have been on the top of this game. So much so that during college, I actually intended to write a book titled presenting for your college courses. And for [...]
We have been in this for a while now. Since birth to be exact. The country of Pakistan was built on the notion of an Islamic state; this very notion is now debated at some far-fetched fronts with the air of arrogance assocaited with self-satisfying false prophets.
Islam has always been considered as the religion of [...]
A blog on how to use the resources available to wrap a business around any opportunity that presents itself (or I could have just said, "A blog on how to be a better entrepreneur" - but I want to keep this as clear as possible)
Hello and Salaams,
I am Momekh and I am the guy behind this blog. I live in Lahore, Pakistan... read more
